July Events at the Lynden Sculpture Garden
The Lynden Sculpture Garden is located at 2145 West Brown Deer Road. Admission is free. All events listed below are free unless otherwise indicated. Memberships, which offer significant discounts on workshops and other events, are available.
HOURS
In July, the Lynden Sculpture Garden is open daily from 10 am-5 pm (closed Thursdays). Thanks to the generosity of our donors, admission is free at this time. For complete information on events, visitor guidelines, and everything that goes on at Lynden, visit lyndensculpturegarden.org. Masks are required in the house. We will be closed for the holiday on July 4.
EXHIBITIONS: GALLERY
Through November 27, 2022
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/exhibitions/healing-coats
If you were the messenger of healing, what would you want to do or say?
Although Call & Response artist Arianne King Comer has been physically absent from Lynden for the past two pandemic years, she has been everywhere in our work: sitting on the HOME Refugee Steering Committee, collaborating with Daniel Minter, and working with local refugees, steering committee members, Call & Response artists, and friends and colleagues from across the country on an exhibition of wearable art. Community engagement specialist Kim Khaira has been coordinating the project on the ground in Milwaukee, procuring sewing machines, pairing designers with seamstresses, staffing translators for virtual meetings with King Comer, and taking refugees to the fabric store for supplies. The “healing coats” produced through this process incorporate cultural and personal symbols of healing. By bringing the coats together in the gallery this summer, we bring together “many voices that speak freely to one another.” This is a Call & Response/HOME event.
EXHIBITIONS: OUTDOORS
THE BONSAI EXHIBIT AT LYNDEN
The exhibition is open to the public on Wednesdays, Saturdays & Sundays from 10 am to 4 pm, or by appointment.
More information: http://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/Bonsai
Located beside Big Lake, the Bonsai Exhibit at Lynden—a collaboration with the Milwaukee Bonsai Society and the Milwaukee Bonsai Foundation–includes a display area for bonsai, waterside teaching patio, and pollinator garden.
CALL & RESPONSE
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/callandresponse2022
Since 2015, Call & Response–a cumulative, cross-disciplinary, community-focused, artist-driven initiative–has brought together artists, scholars, educators, and community members to construct a space for artists of color to celebrate the radical Black imagination as a means to re-examine the past and imagine a better future. While the pandemic forced us to cancel or postpone many public events at Lynden in 2020-2021, we continued our Call & Response work both onsite and virtually, taking advantage of the opportunities to work quietly on Lynden’s 40 acres or to erase geographical distance through virtual collaboration. We are particularly delighted to see some of these long-gestating projects coming to fruition in 2022. This year, we offer in-person residencies and public programs with artists Scott Alves Barton, Daniel Minter, Arianne King Comer, Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group, and Portia Cobb.
HOME 2022: WORLD REFUGEE DAY CELEBRATIONS
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/home-2022
Following our virtual celebration of World Refugee Day on June 20, the HOME Refugee Steering Committee at the Lynden Sculpture Garden invites you to observe World Refugee Day in a series of outdoor events and programs that celebrate Milwaukee’s refugee communities through art, food, fashion, and performance: World Refugee Day (June 26), Music Day (July 16), Dance Day (July 30), Fashion Day (August 6), and two Craft Days (August 20 and September 17).
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
Most in-person programs take place outdoors. Masks are required indoors. Pre-registration is required for some workshops.
SUMMER 2022 DOG DAYS AT LYNDEN: MEET A CONSERVATION DETECTIVE DOG
Saturday, July 9, 2022 – 11 am-12 noon
FREE but registration required.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/summer-2022-dog-days-meet-conservation-detection-dog
Join us for a live demonstration and short presentation by Laura Holder, Ernie, and Betty White of Conservation Dogs Collective. Learn what a conservation dog is, what they do, what they find, and see a live demonstration by a Canine Finder as they sniff out bumble bee nests on our property. All ages are welcome to attend, but please leave your personal pets at home.
Learn more about conservation dogs here: conservationdogscollective.org.
Sunday, July 10, 2022 – 8:30-10 am
Fee: $10/$5 members. For the safety of all concerned, you must register in advance.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/birding-chuck-stebelton-2022
Join poet and birder Chuck Stebelton the second Sunday of each month for a small-group, socially distanced bird walk on the grounds. Keeping to the perimeter of the garden, we’ll watch for seasonal migrants and resident bird species and seek out the best bird habitats to identify as many species as we can. Please dress for the weather and plan to walk in varied terrain. Bring your binoculars if you have them; no previous birding experience required.
KITCHEN COUNTER POETICS: A WORKSHOP WITH CHUCK STEBELTON
Sundays, July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 – 2-4 pm
First three sessions: In Person at Woodland Pattern Book Center
Reading & potluck on Sunday, July 31 at 2 pm at the Lynden Sculpture Garden
Fee: $100 General | $90 Members of Woodland Pattern and/or the Lynden Sculpture Garden
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/kitchen-counter-poetics-workshop-chuck-stebelton
Participants will spend three workshop sessions exploring recipes and poems from writers including Gwendolyn Brooks (her signature Frozen Fruit Salad), Lorine Niedecker (A Cooking Book), Thomas Meyer (Corn Close Kitchen), Ronald Johnson (American Table, Simple Fare), Jaime de Angulo (The Hangover Cookbook), and Robin Blaser (Dave’s Fabulous Recipes). We’ll sample Milwaukee Kitchen, a local made-for-YouTube cooking program featuring diverse gatherings of poets, writers, and food scholars. Our sessions will include generative prompts to dish up plenty of new writing, while encouraging recovery of regional recipes and domestic lore. On July 31, participants and their guests are invited to read writings inspired by the course, and food and beverages will be on hand in celebration of the occasion. This final event is free and open to all!
LABYRINTH SOCIETY OF LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN: FULL MOON SOUND BATH + LABYRINTH WALK
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 – 7-8:30 pm
Fee: $25/$20 members. Pre-registration required.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/sound-bath-july-13-2022
Nourish: The Soil
Join artist-in-residence Jenna Knapp and collaborator Sevan Arabajian-Lawson (Cat Ries) for an evening of full moon nourishment. The full moon is a time for releasing and cleansing so we can promote growth in our lives. In their second collaboration of the season, Jenna and Sevan will guide you through an evening of metaphorical tilling and symbolic fertilizing so you can nourish your dreams, desires, and delights. After the sound bath, Jenna will lead a labyrinth walk, inviting participants to nurture the garden itself by casting fertilizer: taking care of the land, as it holds us in our healing.
Saturday, July 16, 2022 – 12-5 pm
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/home-music-day-2022
For HOME Music Day, emcee Moe Aung, of the Burmese communities, welcomes back returning bands include Congo Gospel Music Band (Congolese), Golden Melody Music Band U.S.A (Burmese), and Samba Da Vida MKE (Afro-Brazilian percussion) and some new participants. Burmese/Rohingya/Malaysian food for HOME Music Day is provided by local refugee chefs.
LABYRINTH SOCIETY OF LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN: GARDEN HOURS WITH JENNA KNAPP
Sunday, July 17, 2022 – 11 am-1 pm
FREE
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/lsolsg-garden-hours-july-2022
Artist-In-residence Jenna Knapp views the labyrinth as a physical representation of the kinds of spaces that she also holds in her coaching practice. The center becomes a place for not only individual reflection but an opportunity for connection and conversation with the community. During Garden Hours you can find Knapp at the center of the labyrinth (or up on the hill depending on the intensity of the sun) where she lends a listening ear to those who would like to be heard. Walk the labyrinth and set down some of your burdens, share your secrets with someone, or verbalize the dreams you haven’t yet brought yourself to say out loud. Insight available upon request. Or just enjoy the charged energy of a shared space, at the center of a winding path.
HOME BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Thursday, July 21, 2022 – 7-8:30 pm
VIRTUAL
FREE.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/home-book-discussion-group-homeira-qaderi-dancing-mosque
The Lynden/HOME Refugee Steering Committee book discussion group, moderated by Lynden’s Kim Khaira, is for those interested in firsthand accounts of displacement. We consider works of non-fiction, including autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works, by writers who have faced or are facing forced displacement as refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants. Where stories of persecution, historical trauma, and loss of livelihood are effortlessly conveyed by storytellers, journalists, and humanitarians who search out or stumble upon the lives of refugees, we seek out the words of those to whom these stories belong: the narrators who are the closest to their own stories, and the stories of their people, friends, family and, of course, refugees. In July, we continue with Homeira Qaderi’s Dancing in the Mosque, translated by Zaman Stanizai. Newcomers welcome!
DOG DAYS AT LYNDEN
Saturday, July 23, 2022 – 10 am-4 pm
FREE.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/dog-days
Bring your canine friends for a summer romp. Dogs must be leashed and considerate of other visitors, canine and human.
This summer, thanks to the generosity of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Joseph R. Pabst Fund, we are offering special programming during our monthly dog days. This gift came with a prompt: How can we acknowledge the role that dogs played in helping so many of us survive the pandemic? See below for our special programs with Margaret Muza and Sara Caron for the June Dog Day.
Saturday, July 23, 2022 – 10 am-4 pm
FREE. To reserve a Shrinky Dink slot, email staff@lyndensculpturegarden.org.
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/summer-2022-dog-days-july
At our July Dog Day, artist Sarah Gail Luther will make you a one-of-a-kind Shrinky Dink charm from a drawing of your dog. This one requires a little patience. Plan on walking around or picnicking for about an hour while Sarah makes your charm. First, she will photograph your dog, then use the photo to make a sketch on polystyrene, and finally she’ll work the Shrinky Dink magic (invented in Brookfield, according to Wikipedia).
NATURAL AREAS WORK DAY
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 – 10 am-12 pm
More information and to register:
https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/natural-areas-work-day
Join the Lynden land team—Kyle Welna, Robert Kaleta, Alyx Christensen, Annalesa Johnson–for a work day in Lynden’s natural areas. With over 40 acres and more than half a dozen specialized garden spaces, Lynden provides many opportunities for volunteers, from removing invasives, to planting, weeding, and collecting seeds. Individuals with a few hours to spare and those ready to commit time on a regular basis are all welcome. Volunteers are encouraged to bring gardening gloves and digging tools (if you have them). Water, snacks, and additional tools will be provided.
GARDEN WORK DAY
Wednesday, July 27, 2022 – 10 am-12 pm
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/garden-work-day
Join the Lynden land team—Kyle Welna, Robert Kaleta, Alyx Christensen, Annalesa Johnson–for a garden work day on Lynden’s grounds. With over 40 acres and more than half a dozen specialized garden spaces, Lynden provides many opportunities for volunteers, from removing invasives, to planting, weeding, and collecting seeds. Individuals with a few hours to spare and those ready to commit time on a regular basis are all welcome. Volunteers are encouraged to bring gardening gloves and digging tools (if you have them). Water, snacks, and additional tools will be provided.
LABYRINTH SOCIETY OF LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN: NEW MOON SOUND BATH + LABYRINTH WALK
Wednesday, July 28, 2022 – 6:45-8:15 pm
Fee: $25/$20 members. Pre-registration required.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/sound-bath-july-28-2022
Grow: The Seed
Join artist-in-residence Jenna Knapp and collaborator Sevan Arabajian-Lawson (Cat Ries) for an evening of new moon ideation and imagination. The new moon marks the first lunar phase and can symbolize new beginnings in our life. You can use the energy of the new moon to set intentions, imagine the successful completion of your goals, or seed a new idea. Take some time out of your week to relax into a healing sound bath and identify your intention for this new beginning. Then, physically plant your intentions in the native Wisconsin prairie by participating in a meditative seed walk where you’ll support the growth of the labyrinth’s walls with your powerful intentions.
HOME DANCE DAY 2022
Saturday, July 30, 2022 – 12-4 pm
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/home-dance-day-2022
Emcee Tessy Sheidun of the Rwandan community is expecting many of HOME Dance Day’s previous participants to return to join us for this family-oriented event. Food for HOME Dance Day is provided by local refugee chefs.
KITCHEN COUNTER POETICS: A READING & POTLUCK
Sundays, July 31, 2022 – 2-4 pm
FREE
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/kitchen-counter-poetics-reading-and-potluck
Join the participants in Chuck Stebelton’s workshop, Kitchen Counter Poetics, for a final reading and potluck.
SUMMER PROGRAMS FOR THE YOUNG AND VERY YOUNG
TUESDAYS IN THE GARDEN FOR PARENTS & VERY SMALL CHILDREN
Tuesdays, July 5, July 12, July 19 & July 26, 10:30 am-11:30 am
Fee: $16/$12 members for one adult and one child.
More information and to register:
https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/Tuesdays
Join art educators Claudia Orjuela and Denice Niebuhr for hands-on art making and all-senses-engaged exploration of the outdoor world at Lynden. Tuesdays in the Garden, designed for children aged 1-3, provides a nurturing environment where children’s curiosity and wonder are extended through play and exploration, and children and their caregivers learn and discover side-by-side. We’ll consider different themes, each designed to connect Lynden’s environment with children’s interests. We will encourage experimentation and the manipulation of art and natural materials to tell stories, solve problems, and develop relationships. The themes for July include Garden Animals, Meet a Tree, A Nest for Explorers, and Life Cycles: Butterflies and Frogs.
HOME: MULTILINGUAL STORY TIME
Wednesday, July 20, 2022– 10:30-11 am
VIRTUAL
For more information and to watch: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/home-story-time
Join us for a virtual, multilingual HOME Story Time from the comfort of your home. HOME Story Time features children’s books written or illustrated by authors, illustrators, and artists who have faced forced displacement as refugees, asylum seekers, or immigrants. Designed for children aged 4-8, we believe that reading picture books is a way to share and discuss big ideas with young children. We end each session with an art activity from Lynden art educator Claudia Orjuela. Follow-up activities will be available for download. The book for July is Señorita Mariposa, written by Ben Gundersheimer and illustrated by Marcos Almada Rivero, read in Spanish and English. Scheduled to screen every third Wednesday of the month, HOME Story Time is a collaboration with the Milwaukee Public Library, the Islamic Resource Center, Hanan Refugee Relief Group, Alliance Française de Milwaukee, and Milwaukee African Women’s Association. Videos will remain on view once they are posted.
SUMMER CAMPS AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND NATURE
Through August 24, 2022
Ages 4-15 years
Fees vary.
More information and to register: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/camps
Lynden’s art and nature camps for children aged 4 to 15 years integrate our collection of monumental outdoor sculpture and temporary installations with the natural ecology of our hidden landscapes and unique habitats. Led by artists, naturalists, and art educators, the camps explore the intersection of art and nature through collaborative inquiry and hands-on artmaking, using all of Lynden’s 40 acres to create a joyful, all-senses-engaged outdoor experience.
NOHL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Funded by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund, joined, in 2022, by the Black Box Fund (now Joy Engine), and administered by Lynden, the Nohl Fellowship program provides unrestricted funds for local artists to create new work or complete work in progress. The associated Suitcase Export Fund underwrites travel and shipping costs for artists with exhibitions and screenings outside the local area.
2019-2020 NOHL FELLOWS EXHIBITION
June 10-July 31, 2022
Haggerty Museum of Art, 13th & Tory Hill Street on the Marquette University Camps
Open daily 10 am-4:30 pm, admission free. (The museum will be closed July 4-8, 2022).
More information: https://www.marquette.edu/haggerty-museum/nohl-2019-2020.php
The long awaited in-person exhibition of the work of the 2019 and 2020 Nohl Fellows features the work of Cecelia Condit and Ammar ‘Ras Nsoroma (2019 Established Artists); Ck Ledesma and Nirmal Raja (2020 Established Artists); Vaughan Larsen, LaNia Sproles, and Natasha Woods (2019 Emerging Artists); and Janelle Gramling, Rosy Petri, and Leah Schretenthaler (2020 Emerging Artists). The 2019 fellows were selected from a field of 159 applicants by a panel of three jurors: Dean Daderko, then Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University; and Jessica S. Hong, then Associate Curator of Global Contemporary Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth. The 2020 fellows were selected from a field of 151 applicants by Kimberli Gant, then McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA; Ashley James, Associate Curator, Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; and Shamim M. Momin, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA.
COMING UP IN AUGUST
More information: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/2022-08
In August we have several large events, starting with the performance of POWER with Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group and a large cast of local dancers and community members on August 13. On August 25, we gather for Harry & Peg Bradley’s Backyard Barbecue to raise funds for our education programs. And at the end of the month, we host the Milwaukee Bonsai Association’s fifty-first annual exhibition (August 27-28). We have two HOME events in August: Fashion Day (August 6) and the first of our two Craft Markets (August 20; dogs are welcome to peruse the stalls that day). There are plenty of regular activities, too: Chuck Stebelton’s bird walk; a full moon sound bath; Jenna Knapp’s Garden Hours in the labyrinth; and our two monthly work days in the gardens and back acres. Tuesdays in the Gardens continues to meet weekly, and August is the last month for our summer camps. Back in cyberspace, we release a new Multilingual Story Time episode and gather to continue our reading of Homeira Qaderi’s Dancing in the Mosque in the refugee book discussion group.
HEALING COATS remains on view in the gallery, and the bonsai exhibit is open Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
ABOUT THE LYNDEN
The Lynden operates as a laboratory at the intersection of art, nature, and culture. Since opening to the public in 2010, we have worked with artists, educators, students, and our community to create, support, and share experiences that integrate our collection of more than 50 monumental sculptures and temporary installations, Lynden’s community of artists, and the natural ecology of our 40-acre site. The sculpture garden is open to art and nature lovers of all ages daily, 10 am-5 pm; closed Thursdays. Thanks to the generosity of the Herzfeld Foundation and other donors, admission is currently waived. Learn more about visitor guidelines here: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/visit. Annual memberships are also available.
NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.
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